Ways to get out of the way of Rita

Well, I don’t live in Houston. I’ve never even been there. But I’ve been looking at traffic reports on the internet, and I have some suggestions for people trying to go out of Houston.

Don’t go North!

The big problems with evacuation are with doing things that everyone else is doing. Instead, do what few people are doing — go South then West.

Find out what roads aren’t being used heavily. Then take those roads; it doesn’t matter where they lead to. Its important that you get away from everyone else. Then after you get away from everyone else, you should have a number of different possibilities for traveling west, that aren’t what everyone else is trying to do.

I guess, in short, what I’m suggesting, is that sometimes the long way might be the fastest because it may go around all the busy spots.

Then again, I’ve never been in a major city that was evacuated.

This is outdated now. Do not try and use any of these comments for actual evacuation